Circus
Teatro Ristori
70 minutes
idea and direction Caterina Mochi Sismondi
with Elisa Mutto, Michelangelo Merlanti, Vladimir Ježić, Carlos Rodrigo Parra Zavala, Simone Menichini / Alexandre Duarte, Jonnathan Lemos
lyrics and voice on stage Ivan Yesterday
rigging Michelangelo Merlanti
original music by Léo Delibes from the ballet Coppélia
live music Beatrice Zanin
lighting direction Massimo Vesco
production Compagnia blucinQue (Centro nazionale di produzione blucinQue Nice) in collaboration with Fondazione Cirko Vertigo
photo © Andrea Macchia
A mechanical doll and an illusion, a body out of balance and a suspended puppet: Caterina Mochi Sismondi explores the themes of identity and the body through a female figure who is fragile yet, at the same time, ironic and powerful. Inspired by the ballet Coppélia – The Girl with Enamel Eyes and Fernand Léger’s Cubist film Ballet Mécanique (1924), the performance intertwines classical and contemporary dance, contortion and hair hanging, in a breathtaking dialogue between movement, object, sound and image.
